Emily Watson Quotes

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• And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you…
• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no…
• During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you…
• I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
• I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
• I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
• I've always been creative, I think.
• It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't…
• It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just…
• You have to play the logic of a character.
• When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to…
• My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in…
• My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room…
• In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for…
• I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the…
• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's…
• When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time…
• I always think I am going to do my best.
• I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
• Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and…

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